Our pal Mike Musto wasn't having a great day. The car he was going to shoot for this episode of DRIVE's Big Muscle broke. Out of options, the BM crew hopped in their support vehicle—Mike's asthmatic 2.5-ton Caprice wagon making Camry power—and headed to the Sonoma drag strip with no real plan. After setting a bracket time that was a full three seconds faster than their pre-race estimate, all pretense of bracket consistency went out the window, and it became a full-on challenge to get the Battle Wagon under the 17-second mark.

No one's saying that the Caprice is a good drag car by any traditional measure, but don't tell that to Mike and his guys. They had a blast. The video illustrates the mantra we have here at Road & Track: you can have fun in the most unexpected cars. Now we just have to convince the resident R&T D-body owner to take his Cadillac to the strip. It's better than the Big Muscle Caprice: it has cutouts.